Analysis – Jerome Sale, Oxford United commentator at BBC Radio Oxford<\/p>\n
Ramsey joins a growing list of young EFL managers. <\/p>\n
If Oxford fans are concerned about lack of experience, they may take heart in the recent League One success of rookie managers like John Mousinho and Michael Skubala – even Ramsey’s former Arsenal team-mate Jack Wilshere.<\/p>\n
But even though his playing career only officially ended in April, you can make a case that Ramsey has been a manager in waiting for some time. <\/p>\n
Without exception, Oxford’s successes over the years have been delivered by bosses who had low-key playing careers. <\/p>\n
Whether by accident or design though, the U’s may have recruited a new head coach whose identity should play well in both markets. <\/p>\n
A big enough name for the owner, but surely not big enough to prefix the club’s name in every media report.<\/p>\n
I understand Oxford have spoken a lot internally about playing identity. <\/p>\n
Fans and the board will be united in wanting to see a more front-foot U’s attack in League One after two seasons of battling to survive in the Championship. <\/p>\n
The timing of the change of management has been questioned – more than a month and a half after the season ended.<\/p>\n
The Oxford players are back for pre-season training in a matter of days, and while there’s a new face in the manager’s office there are zero in the dressing room. <\/p>\n
In addition to having input into plans for new signings, Ramsey may have to settle one or two of the existing squad who could be restless after a relegation and, now, a change of manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analysis – Jerome Sale, Oxford United commentator at BBC Radio Oxford Ramsey joins a growing list of young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-654538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}